Heresy in Late Medieval Germany: The Inquisitor Petrus Zwicker and the Waldensians

by Reima Välimäki

First major survey of the German inquisitor Petrus Zwicker, one of the most significant figures in the repression of heresy.

In the final years of the fourteenth century, waves of persecution shattered German-speaking Waldensian communities, with the scale of inquisitions matching or even greater than the better-known trials in southern France. In the middle of the persecution was the influential and enigmatic figure of the Celestine provincial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903153867
• ISBN13: 9781903153864
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"